> The concern I've always had about agents is that a denial> of service bug (or attack) is usually far more serious on> the server side than the client side. I expect that mobile> agents will only be practical in a very controlled environment,> with massive reliance on strict checking of trustedness> of the mobile code.

> bv

This leads me to think that there should be some controlled space designed into servers, or embedded in routers especially, with its own non-critical I/O where Jini services (agents?) can breathe.